Welcome to the Busted Open podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Nick Nem have

Sit Down with Samantha Irvin, why she left the WWE, what she's doing now, and could we see her back

in the world of pro wrestling? We talk about it right now on the Busted Open podcast. This is the Busted

Open podcast. She made her mark

in the biggest of ways over the course of the last two years. And that is Samantha, who joins us here

on Busted Over. Samantha, how are you? Hello, I'm wonderful. How are you? I am so happy for you because I know that

your love of loves and I know how much you love pro wrestling. We'll get into that.

But I also know, we'll get wrestling, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, whatever. We barely talk about

on the show anyway. It's fine. Yeah. We try to avoid it as much as possible. But I know how much a love and

passion that you have for music and for singing and for being an artist. And now you're able to do

that again. So just talk about how important that was for you and the growth of doing that meant to

you. Oh, man. You know, I've obviously

had quite some time to reflect. And I, I, when I came into the WWE and I met you prior to,

and we talked about music a little bit, I was writing so much music during the pandemic. And before that, I was just stockpiling songs, really.

But when you use your voice, literally, to pay your rent, those passion projects and that extra time in the studio sometimes just can't happen.

You know, so, you know, wrestling's not even

really to blame because I always have used my voice really strenuously for whatever production

I was in. And now for the first time ever, thanks to WWE, thanks to pro wrestling, I actually

have people who want to hear my songs first. And I've gotten to a

place in my career where I can say, oh, wow, I'm literally able to do this. I'm not, I don't need

to scream my face off to pay my bills right now. So I can use my voice precisely how I want to

for the first time in 36 years.

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